Filling Up quotes
29 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath. And writing is about filling up, filling up when you are empty, letting images and ideas and smells run down like water - just as writing is also about dealing with the emptiness."
"It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space."
"I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily"
"I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up."
"I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books."
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"Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire."
"The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon."
"Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own."
"They called it the Terminal Bar but they had no idea that like twenty years later the place'd be filling up with terminal cases."
"All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass."
